Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (December 6, 1878 – May 12, 1937) was an American-born British neurologist.

A year after Wilson's birth, his father died and his family moved to Edinburgh.

In 1905 he relocated to London, where he worked as registrar and pathologist at the National Hospital, Queens Square.

Kinnier Wilson at Westminster Hospital was the first to be given a specialized neurological appointment at a general hospital ...[1]Wilson specialized in clinical neurology, and made important contributions in his studies of epilepsy, narcolepsy, apraxia and speech disorders.

dissertation of 1912 titled "Progressive lenticular degeneration" from the University of Edinburgh Medical School.